Resources To Help in Your Career Pivot
Explore a growing list of career resources and services for PhDs and academics who want to leave academia or want a career change.
The resources below include various career services, newsletters, and communities dedicated to the experience of leaving academia.
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| Name | Type | Description | Social Media |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD to Industry Weekly Newsletter | Newsletter | A weekly newsletter dedicated to helping you navigate the transition from academia to industry and accelerate your career growth. | |
| The Recovering Academic | Newsletter | A series on life after academe with riffs on fatherhood, identity, and the writing life. | |
| Roostervane | Career Resources | Roostervane is a resource guide created by Chris Cornthwaite, who graduated with PhD in religious studies. | |
| The Bold PhD | Career Resources | The Bold PhD helps PhD-holders land fulfilling non-academic jobs. Founded by Dr. Gertrude Nonterah. | LinkedIn Youtube |
| HirePhD | Non-Profit Organization | HirePhD is a registered non-profit organization that helps talented people with advanced degrees (PhD/Masters) navigate career paths outside of academia. | |
| r/Academia | Subreddit | An online community for sharing academic works and discussion of issues and events relating to academia and the related political, economical, and social structures. | Reddit Link |
| r/Adjuncts | Subreddit | For university, college, community college, and technical school adjunct instructors. For those who teach college-level courses on a per-course basis. | Reddit Link |
| r/CareerGuidance | Subreddit | A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice! | Reddit Link |
| r/LeavingAcademia | Subreddit | Not everyone can become or wants to become tenured researchers/professors. Here, we can discuss reasons to leave or to stay, how to smoothe the transition and how to succeed “outside”. | Reddit Link |
| r/PhD | Subreddit | A subreddit dedicated to PhDs. | Reddit Link |
| Recovering Academics | Private Community | Anyone currently or formerly working in academia is welcome to join us in supporting each other. Recovering Academics is a private group, and we do our best to create a safe and confidential space for all members. | |
| Young Entrepreneurs in Science | Non-Profit Organization | Young Entrepreneurs in Science is part of and enabled by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin, initiated in 2017 by the chairman of the board of trustees, Prof. Dr Jürgen Mlynek. | |
| Minerva Recruitment | Career Services | As a Scholar-Activist, Rosalie is particularly motivated to empower women (and other frequently marginalized scholars) to find better (and more secure) employment opportunities – whether outside or inside ‘the Academy | |
| Employed Historian | Career Resource | A website dedicated to helping liberal arts and humanities graduates land a job. | |
| Papa PhD | Podcast | A weekly show where a host shares the stories of guests with the most varied post-PhD career journeys and experiences. | |
| MeghanBPhD | Newsletter | Notes on DEI, Modern Workplace Culture, and Leaving Academia | |
| Kaidi Wu, Ph.D. | Career Services | During her transition, she traversed the worlds of non-traditional academic roles, UX research, data science, solopreneurship, content creation. | |
| Data Science Career Coaching By Dr Adam Ross Nelson | Career Services | Career coaching for current and aspiring data science and machine learning professionals. – Learn how established professionals can become a data science or machine learning professional. | |
| After Academia | Career Services | Resources for your non-academic job search, curated by Ashley Ruba, PhD | |
| From PhD to Life | Career Services | Jen Polk, PhD helps professors, postdocs, and other PhDs find meaningful careers after academia. Join her PhD Career Clarity Program today. | |
| HirePhD. Talent Community | LinkedIn Group | A networking group for graduate students and PhDs looking to transition from academia to industry. Let’s share resources and support each other through the job search journey! | |
| The PhD Pack | LinkedIn Group | The PhD Pack is a group for all PhDs to network, collaborate, and share their knowledge on academia, research, industry, private sector, and everything and anything. | |
| Beyond Academia Group | LinkedIn Group | The Beyond Academia Network is a network of student groups dedicated to educating graduate students and postdocs on career options outside of academia and helping them transition to these positions. | |
| Beyond Academia – UCBerkeley | Conference | Beyond Academia is a non-profit organization run by UC Berkeley graduate students with the goal of empowering PhDs and postdocs to expand their career options beyond the traditional academic track. | |
| The Professor Is Out | Facebook Group | A *mutual support* group for academics who are moving on and moving out. This is a private group (posts are not visible publicly) to make a safe environment for exploring non-ac anxieties, dilemmas, and options. | |
| The Professor is In Blog | Blog | Guidance for grad school, job market, and careers in academia and out of it | Blog |
| PhD Careers Beyond Academia | Social Media Page / Group | An interest-based organization run by PhD students and Postdocs at Karolinska Institutet. We invite researchers that are interested to learn about careers outside of the classical academia to attend our seminar series “PhD Careers Beyond Academia”. | LinkedIn |
| Trulitica | Career Services | 1:1 Biotech Coaching. Ali Divan, Ph.D. Founder | |
| Google Interview Guide | Company Resource | Tips for interviewing straight from Google | |
| Blogging Beyond Academia | Blog | A blog from Cornell University | |
| Beyond the Professoriate | Career Services | Partnering with universities to scale career and professional development to meet the needs of all graduate students. Learn more about our PhD Career Training Platform. | |
| Versatile PhD | Career Services | Helping graduate students and PhDs envision, prepare for, and excel in non-academic careers since 1999 | |
| Industry Newsletter – University of Chicago | Newsletter | Career Advancement Support for students at UChicago | |
| Going Alt Ac Guide | Blog Post | What is Alt-Ac? What is an Alt-Ac job? And how do you find one? | |
| Surviving Burnout | Blog | A personal blog post that describes burnout in detail. From Audrey Eschright | |
| High Impact Memes | Social Media Profile | See how people discuss academic life in twitter threads | X Account |
| USA Jobs Board | Job Board | Search and apply for federal jobs. Learn about unique hiring paths for veterans, students and graduates, individuals with a disability, and more. | |
| PhD Project Job Board | Job Board | A job board with daily postings aimed at PhDs. | |
| PhD Jobs | Job Board | PhD jobs – A leading site for finding PhD positions – PhD positions in higher education | |
| Alt-Ac Career Resources | Resource List | A resource list created by the American Studies Organization | Twitter / X |
| Stop Resisting Faculty Careers | Blog Post | You can love your field, your specialty area and academe, but sometimes they won’t love you back, writes Christine Kelly. Posted in Inside Higher Ed | |
| Alt-Ac Jobs | Job Board | Curating US-based altac jobs for advanced degrees. | |
| Publish Not Perish | Newsletter | Access valuable resources, tools, and expert advice from scholarly career and writing coach Jenn McClearen. | |
| Academia or industry? How I learned to pivot between them | Science | AAAS | Blog Post | A blog post about pivoting into industry about if it’s possible to return to academia. Posted in Science.org | |
| MIT – How To Pivot into Industry | Free Resource | A colleciton of resources for pivoting into industry from MIT | |
| Leaving the Academy: How I Transitioned into Industry at Mid-Career and How You Can, Too | by Dena Huisman | After Academia | Medium | Blog Post | A Medium post by Dena Huisman which was posted in After Academia | |
| Chronicle of Higher Education Job Board | Job Board | Search for your next job from 30,486 live job openings, or upload your resume now and let employers find you | |
| Academics in the Wild | Free Resource | Website | An initiative to support physicists and mathematicians in their journey from academia to industry. | Discord |
| Clueo Clinical | Career Services | We specialise in transforming candidates and new hires with limited industry experience into top-performing clinical trial professionals. | |
| Bridging the Research–Practice Divide: A Study of Scholar-Practitioners’ Multiple Role Management Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers Across Roles | Academic Journal | The study investigates the relationship between multiple role management strategies and knowledge spillovers across roles. | |
| PhD Career Resources for PhD Students | Blog | Career resources for PhD students – published by the journal ‘Nature’ | |
| PhD Paths | Free Resources | Learn what career paths you can take with your PhD by viewing several informational interviews. |